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Welcome to the Stock Club podcast, where we bring you weekly episodes on the most significant changes in the world of investing. Delve into the inner workings of investing, stock news and strategies, all geared towards helping you become a better investor. Join the MyWallSt team, as they sit down to share the latest investing stories. If you want to stay ahead in the game, this podcast is for you.
Episodios 335
Nvidia (NVDA) Falls 5% as CEO Probe Opens, and the Nasdaq's Worst Day Since 2020 | Stock Club 336
https://joinstockclub.com Join over 100,000 investors who get our free weekly Stock Club newsletter every Friday, plus two free reports: Last week was one of those weeks where a decade happens. The Nasdaq had …
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https://joinstockclub.com Join over 100,000 investors who get our free weekly Stock Club newsletter every Friday, plus two free reports: Last week was one of those weeks where a decade happens. The Nasdaq had its worst day since 2020 after the midterm elections, with trillions in value wiped off global stocks in hours, then bounced hard the next day. Emmet starts by untangling the jargon (dip, correction, bear market, crash, melt up) and asks which label actually fits what happened. Mike then walks through what midterms have historically meant for the S&P 500, why a divided government tends to be good for markets, and why this time the story is different: data center bans and moratoria passed in dozens of jurisdictions, which hit a market heavily concentrated in the AI trade.They debate whether this is a bubble or just a pause. Chip stocks like Micron and Nvidia are growing earnings so fast that they trade at lower multiples than before the rally, but the risk is what new regulation does to the huge data center build-out. They also react to the report that Anthropic's IPO is being scaled back toward $1 trillion, and why quality stocks may be the quiet winners if investors rotate out of AI.Then the story of the week: Nvidia has opened an independent investigation into a relationship involving CEO Jensen Huang, amid reporting about a business associate and export controls on advanced chips to China. Nvidia fell about 5% on Monday, over $200 billion. The hosts break down what it could mean for a company that is roughly 6% or more of the S&P 500, for export controls, and for the neoclouds that depend on Nvidia's investment.
#MyWallSt #StockClub #Nvidia #NVDA #Nasdaq #StockMarket #Midterms #AI #InvestingCompanies & Topics DiscussedNvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMD)Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU)Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)CoreWeave, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWV)Anthropic (pending IPO)0:00 Intro0:23 Dip, Correction, Crash, Melt Up: Market Jargon Explained3:52 Recession vs. Expansion4:35 The Nasdaq's Worst Day Since the Pandemic5:22 Friday's Bounce and Four Losing Weeks6:22 Zooming Out: A Generational Bull Run7:44 What Midterm Elections Mean for Stocks9:38 Why Divided Government Helps Markets10:48 Thursday's Selloff and the AI Concentration Problem11:05 The Data Center Vote That Spooked Investors12:53 A Storm in a Teacup?13:48 Bubble or Not? Chip Stocks Cheaper on Earnings15:17 Bottlenecks and Regulation Risk16:22 Anthropic's IPO Scaled Back17:00 Quality Stocks and the Shift Away From AI18:55 Avoiding the Obvious AI Answer for 202719:58 The Nvidia CEO Story22:50 Nvidia Opens an Independent Investigation Into Its CEO24:37 What Happens If Nvidia Loses Its CEO?25:20 Export Controls and Chips to China27:42 Nvidia Falls 5%, Over $200 Billion30:25 Ripple Effects on the AI Industry31:28 National Security and Export Control Risk32:48 Tougher Export Controls Ahead33:28 What It Means for Nvidia-Backed Neoclouds37:05 Wrap-UpAt MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.
(Details of the Nvidia story are as reported by the hosts and cited outlets and may have developed since recording.)
Apple (AAPL): Bull vs Bear, Is a $5 Trillion Valuation Too High? | Stock Club 335
Join over 100,000 investors who get our free weekly Stock Club newsletter every Friday, plus two free reports: https://joinstockclub.comApple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is a roughly $5 trillion company that almost …
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Join over 100,000 investors who get our free weekly Stock Club newsletter every Friday, plus two free reports: https://joinstockclub.com
Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) is a roughly $5 trillion company that almost everyone uses and hardly anyone on Stock Club has pitched, so Mike and Emmet flipped a coin and went head to head. Mike makes the bull case: a toll booth that runs in both directions across about 2 billion devices, switching costs that start in the teenage group chat, around $150 billion in operating profit at 33% margins, a share count down about 30% since 2017, and a bet that AI models will become commodities Apple can simply rent while the hyperscalers burn through cash.
Emmet takes the bear side. The biggest company in the world is rarely the best investment, and only one of the ten most valuable US companies of 2006 is still in the top ten today. He points to a first-time CEO taking over a $5 trillion company, an AI roadmap that is visibly behind, a holiday quarter with no standard iPhone 18 and a $2,000 foldable that sold out in minutes but is barely being made, and a valuation near 38 times earnings that leaves little room for error.
They finish with the test that settles it: if you had $10,000 to invest for ten years with no tinkering, how much would you put in Apple?
Stocks Mentioned
- Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)
- Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
- NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)
- Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)
- Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY)
- Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG)
#MyWallSt #StockClub #Apple #AAPL #BullVsBear #StockAnalysis #TechStocks #Investing
CHAPTERS0:00 Intro & Newsletter Plug1:12 This Week: Apple, Bull vs Bear2:26 The Rules: Coin Flip & the $10,000 Test5:19 The Bull Case: Apple's Two-Way Toll Booth6:51 Branding, Green Bubbles & Network Effects8:26 Switching Costs & the Walled Garden12:21 The App Store Cut & Apple Pay13:48 Why Apple Users Spend More16:21 Google's $20 Billion Default Search Deal17:32 $150B in Operating Profit & 30% Fewer Shares19:03 Apple vs. the AI Spending Race21:07 Outperforming the Magnificent Seven23:33 Tim Cook's Financial Vision25:32 The Bear Case: Biggest Isn't Best25:53 Only One of 2006's Top Ten Is Still There28:30 A First-Time CEO at a $5 Trillion Company30:55 Apple's Rough Start in AI34:04 Split Authority at the Top35:26 No New iPhone for Christmas38:50 The $2,000 iPhone Duo Sells Out40:08 Foldable: Experiment or Growth Leg?42:18 A 38x Earnings Valuation44:24 The Next Device Threat46:58 A Slow Drift, Not a Collapse49:04 How Much of $10,000 Would You Put in Apple?52:01 Wrap-Up
Anthropic's IPO Could Raise $100 Billion. Here's What's Really in the S-1 | Stock Club 334
Join 100,000 investors who get our free weekly Stock Club newsletter every Friday, plus two free reports: https://joinstockclub.com Anthropic, the company behind Claude, filed for its IPO on October 26th …
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Join 100,000 investors who get our free weekly Stock Club newsletter every Friday, plus two free reports: https://joinstockclub.com
Anthropic, the company behind Claude, filed for its IPO on October 26th, reportedly targeting a mid-November listing that could raise up to $100 billion, potentially the biggest stock market debut ever. Emmet and Mike spend the episode inside the S-1 itself, the 300-plus-page document Anthropic has to file before going public, separating the real numbers from the headline-grabbing ones.The much-repeated "$81 billion in losses" figure, for example, is mostly a non-cash accounting charge tied to convertible notes. On an operating basis, Anthropic actually lost around $700 million in the first half of 2026, down from $2.1 billion the year before, and generated $3.9 billion in operating cash flow. They dig into the founders' decision to keep 51% voting control, their pledge to give away 80% of their personal equity, net dollar retention that hit 900% among existing customers, and the eye-opening customer growth numbers buried deep in the filing. They also get into the parts of the S-1 that read less like a standard risk disclosure and more like a warning label, including disclosed AI behavior resembling blackmail and self-preservation, and close with the real question: would you actually put money into this IPO, and does a $1.5 to $2 trillion valuation for an 18-month-old product make any sense at all?
Companies & Topics Discussed:
Anthropic (pending IPO; reportedly listing on Nasdaq)
OpenAIAmazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY)
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ:SBUX)
Tesla, Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA)
Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META)
SpaceX
Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO)
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
Snowflake Inc. (NYSE:SNOW)
CHAPTERS0:00 Intro & Stock Club Newsletter Plug1:13 This Week: Anthropic Files for IPO2:00 A $235 Billion Day for AI4:29 Why Private Markets Can't Keep Up With AI's Capital Needs5:37 Reading the S-1: Revenue Up 14-Fold to $16 Billion6:50 The $81 Billion Loss Headline, Debunked9:16 Why the Founders Kept 51% Voting Control10:38 The Founders' Pledge to Give Away 80% of Their Equity12:47 "We Will Halt Deployments If Safety Thresholds Are Breached"15:20 Claude Is Already Writing 90% of Its Own Code17:16 The Y2K Comparison, and Why This Risk Has No Red Line20:36 Net Dollar Retention Hit 900%22:24 The Jaw-Dropping Customer Numbers on Page 10525:30 Could AI Actually Help Cure Cancer?27:51 Compute Costs Are Falling as a Share of Revenue30:43 $600 Billion in Compute Commitments Through 203134:10 Why Two Companies Failing Could Take Down the Whole Market35:46 The Blackmail and Self-Preservation Behavior in the Filing41:12 Valuation Reportedly Fell From $2T to $1.5T in a Week42:54 Would You Put $10,000 Into the IPO?45:27 Comparing Anthropic's Valuation to Amazon and Eli Lilly49:16 Claude vs. ChatGPT: Would They Invest in Themselves?
At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork.
Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.#MyWallSt #StockClub #Anthropic #Claude #AI #IPO
#StockMarket #Investing
Ireland’s New Investment Account Explained: €2K Tax vs €11K | With Paul Overy
Ireland’s budget brings three big changes for investors: capital gains tax falling from 33% to 31%, exit tax on funds dropping from 38% to 35%, and a brand new Irish investment account opening on July 1, 2027 …
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Ireland’s budget brings three big changes for investors: capital gains tax falling from 33% to 31%, exit tax on funds dropping from 38% to 35%, and a brand new Irish investment account opening on July 1, 2027. Emmet sits down with Paul Overy, founder of Ask About Wealth and author of The Tricks of the Rich, to work out what it all means for your money.Paul ran the numbers on investing €12,000 a year for eight years at a 7% return. Under deemed disposal, the tax bill came to just over €11,000. Investing directly under CGT, just over €10,000. In the new account, just over €2,000 (before fees, which haven’t been announced yet). They also cover why Paul doesn’t think tax is the real barrier to investing in Ireland, the capital acquisition tax threshold gap, why an 8% rental yield can shrink to under 1%, and the 80/20 rule for turning a high income into lasting wealth.This episode is for educational purposes only and is not financial advice.Chapters00:00 Meet Paul Overy of Ask About Wealth01:23 Ireland’s budget: 3 big changes for investors02:52 Is tax really the barrier to investing?04:13 €12K a year for 8 years: deemed disposal vs CGT vs new account05:38 The fees caveat07:23 Will the banks, Revolut and Trading 212 keep it simple?08:43 Why tax breaks raise all boats10:31 Fear, knowledge and market crashes14:17 Will 31% CGT keep wealthy people in Ireland?15:37 When CGT was halved, receipts tripled17:22 Who will actually use the new account17:45 Is the 1% annual charge a wealth tax?19:37 The real barrier: impartial advice22:39 Who the new account suits best26:12 Capital acquisition tax: the €760K threshold gap28:18 Gifting money while you’re alive30:00 Why Irish people love property32:52 The 8% rental yield that was really 0.7%34:49 Inside Ask About Wealth35:46 Do you know what your pension costs?39:44 Turning income into wealth: the 80/20 rule42:55 The tricks of the rich45:41 Rory McIlroy and doing the workAt MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.#MyWallSt #StockClub #IrishInvesting #DeemedDisposal #CapitalGainsTax #PersonalFinanceIreland #IrelandBudget
Is AI One Big Circular Deal? Inside the $3.6 Trillion Web | Stock Club 332
Emmet and Mike step back from individual stock picks this week to dig into something that's been quietly rattling markets: the circular nature of AI industry financing. OpenAI recently walked back its own …
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Emmet and Mike step back from individual stock picks this week to dig into something that's been quietly rattling markets: the circular nature of AI industry financing. OpenAI recently walked back its own annualized revenue figure from roughly $68 billion to $50 billion after admitting the larger number included gross revenue that gets immediately redistributed to partners, and the news knocked AI-adjacent stocks across the board.They break down the web of commitments connecting Nvidia, OpenAI, Oracle, Microsoft, and Amazon, where the same dollars seem to flow from investor to AI lab to cloud provider to chipmaker and back again. Citing a Financial Times analysis of the sector, they discuss findings that around 176 deals worth a combined $3.6 trillion exist between roughly 200 entities, with the majority flagged as highly circular. They also cover the scale of hyperscaler debt issuance, OpenAI's delayed IPO timeline, and why market breadth has narrowed so sharply around a handful of AI-exposed names.The episode closes with the regular Following Prophet segment, where Emmet reviews the model portfolio's track record through its third consecutive negative rebalance.Companies & Topics DiscussedOpenAINvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA)Oracle Corporation (NYSE:ORCL)Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN)AnthropicCHAPTERS0:00 Intro: The $10 Bill Analogy for AI's Circular Economy0:59 Welcome & Catching Up3:10 Why This Episode, Why Now4:24 OpenAI's Revenue Walkback: $68B to $50B7:28 OpenAI's IPO Delay & Fundraising Pressure9:44 The FT's "Joining the Dots of Big AI" & the $3.6 Trillion Web11:19 How the Nvidia-OpenAI-Oracle-Microsoft Loop Works14:25 Market Breadth: 40% of the S&P 500 in 10 Names16:02 Hyperscalers Taking on Debt20:47 OpenAI's Gross Margins & Projected Cash Burn23:22 The Amazon Comparison: Building a Moat Through Losses28:11 Will Humanity Keep Pace With AI?32:21 China's Open-Weight Model Approach37:09 Wrapping Up: What We Actually Know37:48 Following Prophet: Three Losing Rebalances in a Row43:18 OutroAt MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.#MyWallSt #StockClub #AI #AIBubble #OpenAI #Nvidia #StockMarket #Investing #TechStocks
Netflix (NFLX): Bull vs Bear, Is This a Buy After Falling 50%?
This week Stock Club tries something new: instead of each picking a different stock, Emmet and Mike go head to head on the same one. Mike makes the bear case against Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), and Emmet, a 22-year …
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This week Stock Club tries something new: instead of each picking a different stock, Emmet and Mike go head to head on the same one. Mike makes the bear case against Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), and Emmet, a 22-year shareholder, argues the bull case, both from today's price after the stock has fallen roughly 50 percent from its all-time high in June 2025.
Mike lays out the risks: stagnant viewership growth, a weak Emmy season without a breakout hit since Stranger Things, saturation in Netflix's most profitable markets, competition for attention from TikTok and YouTube, and the pressure of rising content costs in live sports. Emmet counters with Netflix's position as what he calls the world's default TV channel, improving unit economics, double-digit revenue growth across every region in Q2 2026, a fast-growing ad tier approaching $3 billion in revenue this year, and a valuation that's fallen from roughly 40 times earnings to under 20.
They wrap with their take on the collapsed Warner Bros. Discovery acquisition and why walking away from that deal might have been one of management's smartest moves this year.
#MyWallSt #StockClub #Netflix #NFLX #BullVsBear #StreamingWars #StockAnalysis #ValueInvesting
Stocks Mentioned: Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX)
0:00 Intro: A New Bull vs Bear Format
1:05 Why Talk About Netflix Now?
2:22 The Bear Case Begins: Why Has the Stock Fallen?
3:13 Stagnant Viewership & a Weak Emmy Season
7:37 Saturated Markets: The Growth Problem
9:49 Competing for Attention: TikTok, YouTube & Younger Viewers
18:11 Netflix's Stock Journey: $20 to $130 to $67
19:27 Live Sports Costs & Margin Pressure
21:30 The Streaming Fatigue Problem
28:18 The Bull Case Begins: 22 Years as a Shareholder
33:17 Three 40,000-Foot Observations on Netflix
40:11 The 2026 Selloff as a Buying Opportunity
44:34 Q2 2026 Results: Revenue, Margins & Guidance
46:20 International Growth Across Every Region
49:18 Advertising: The Next Growth Engine
52:36 Why Walking Away From Warner Bros. Discovery Mattered
56:46 Closing Thoughts & Listener Feedback Request
At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.
Could Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) Become the First $10 Trillion Stock?
Emmet turns this week's episode into a guessing game, teasing five clues before revealing a 150-year-old company that's become one of the most important businesses in the world: Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY). Founded in …
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Emmet turns this week's episode into a guessing game, teasing five clues before revealing a 150-year-old company that's become one of the most important businesses in the world: Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY).
Founded in Indianapolis in 1876, Lilly introduced the world's first commercially available insulin in 1923, pioneered recombinant DNA medicine with Humulin in 1982, and brought the world Prozac in 1986.
Today it's a $1.1 trillion company, and both Bill Mann and Porter Stansberry have separately pitched it as a candidate to become the world's first $10 trillion business.
Emmet breaks down why: Mounjaro and Zepbound drove Q2 2026 revenue up 48 percent to $23 billion, the obesity drug market may address a global population the World Health Organization estimates at 890 million adults, and Lilly's new oral pill Foundayo (orforglipron) just added a convenient alternative to injections. He also covers the experimental triple-agonist drug Retatrutide, Lilly's $5.6 billion Houston manufacturing buildout, and the math behind what a true ten-x over 20 years would actually require.
This months following Prophet, spotlighting this month's standout addition to the model portfolio, Ross Stores.
Stocks Mentioned
Eli Lilly and Company (NYSE:LLY)
Ross Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ:ROST)
At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.
#MyWallSt #StockClub #EliLilly #LLY #GLP1 #WeightLossDrugs #TrillionDollarStock #Pharma #StockPicks
Coupang (CPNG) & Nike (NKE): 2 Stocks Down 50% That We Still Like
Emmet and Mike each pick a stock that's been hammered, down at least 50 percent from its highs, and make the case for why the sell-off has gone too far. Emmet starts with Coupang (NYSE:CPNG), often called the …
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Emmet and Mike each pick a stock that's been hammered, down at least 50 percent from its highs, and make the case for why the sell-off has gone too far. Emmet starts with Coupang (NYSE:CPNG), often called the Amazon of South Korea, built around a Rocket Delivery network that gets orders to customers in as little as 15 minutes. Shares have been cut in half since a major customer data breach last November triggered regulatory fines of roughly $410 million, but Emmet digs into the most recent numbers, including payment volume and active user counts, to make the case that the damage to the actual business has been far smaller than the stock price suggests.
Mike then makes the case for Nike (NYSE:NKE), which has fallen even further from its highs and is being removed from the S&P 100 index this month. He walks through where the strategy went wrong, drawing comparisons to brand missteps at Michael Kors and Under Armour, and explains why he still sees a path back for one of the most recognized logos on the planet.
#MyWallSt #StockClub #Coupang #CPNG #Nike #NKE #StockPicks #ValueInvesting #TurnaroundStocks
Stocks Mentioned:
- Coupang, Inc. (NYSE:CPNG) — Emmet's pick
- NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) — Mike's pick
0:00 Intro: Skipping Next Week & AI Slowdown Talk3:35 Emmet's Pick: Coupang, the "Amazon of South Korea"15:29 The November Data Breach & Its Fallout17:22 Coupang's Q2 2026 Results24:40 Has Coupang Actually Recovered?28:36 Mike's Pick: Nike's Turnaround Story31:06 What Went Wrong: Nike's Strategic Missteps45:20 Nike vs Coupang: Market Cap & Valuation47:54 The $10,000 Split: Coupang or Nike?52:15 Outro
2 AI-Proof Stocks We're Watching: Waste Management (WM) & Viking (VIK)
This week Emmet and Mike do the opposite of every other Stock Club episode lately: they go looking for businesses that have nothing to do with artificial intelligence. Mike makes the case for Waste Management …
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This week Emmet and Mike do the opposite of every other Stock Club episode lately: they go looking for businesses that have nothing to do with artificial intelligence.
Mike makes the case for Waste Management (NYSE:WM), arguing that strict environmental and zoning laws have made it nearly impossible to open a new US landfill since the 1980s, leaving Waste Management and a small handful of incumbents with a nearly uncontested, consolidating market. He also flags Republic Services (NYSE:RSG) and Waste Connections (NYSE:WCN) as additional companies that benefit from the same dynamic.
Emmet pick this week is Viking Holdings (NYSE:VIK), the river and ocean cruise operator built around older, affluent travelers. He walks through Viking's latest quarter, including double digit revenue growth, occupancy north of 90 percent, and advance bookings that already cover most of this year's capacity and a growing share of next year's, along with the leadership handover from founder Torstein Hagen to new CEO Leah Talactac.
These are the kind of businesses that keep compounding quietly while the market obsesses over chips and data centers. Long term investors might want at least one or two names in their portfolios that don't come with an AI story attached.
#MyWallSt #StockClub #WasteManagement #Viking #NonAIStocks #StockPicks #LongTermInvesting #DividendStocks
Stocks Mentioned
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE:WM)
Viking Holdings Ltd (NYSE:VIK)
Republic Services, Inc. (NYSE:RSG)
Waste Connections, Inc. (NYSE:WCN)
At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.
Ireland's New Investment Tax Scheme Explained & An AI Pick from Investicon
Emmet and Mike recap Investicon 2026, MyWallSt's investor event in Dublin, and unpack two of the biggest ideas to come out of it. First, they break down a major shift coming for Irish investors around deemed …
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Emmet and Mike recap Investicon 2026, MyWallSt's investor event in Dublin, and unpack two of the biggest ideas to come out of it.
First, they break down a major shift coming for Irish investors around deemed disposal tax and long term investment savings, and why the current eight year exit tax rule has frustrated everyday investors for years.
Then they dig into 24/7 Wall Street's Eric Bleeker's AI infrastructure thesis from the event stage. Bleeker argues that the next phase of the AI boom will be defined by bottlenecks rather than headline chip releases, specifically networking and electricity constraints inside data centers. He unveils Vicor (NASDAQ: VICR), a company building vertical power delivery modules designed to move power conversion physically closer to AI processors, addressing the same kind of proximity problem that made high bandwidth memory and optics into massive markets.
They also break down what a token actually is in plain English and why token usage is becoming the real cost driver behind AI services like Claude and ChatGPT.
#MyWallSt #StockClub #Vicor #VICR #AIStocks #Investicon #ArtificialIntelligence #DataCenters #StockMarket #InvestingIreland
Stocks Mentioned:
- Vicor Corporation (NASDAQ:VICR)
At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.Moderna's Cancer Vaccine Breakthrough & Why Uber Could Win the Robotaxi War
Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) is back in the headlines after phase three success for what's being called a cancer vaccine, built on the same mRNA technology that powered its Covid vaccine. We discuss just how …
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Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) is back in the headlines after phase three success for what's being called a cancer vaccine, built on the same mRNA technology that powered its Covid vaccine. We discuss just how significant it is that this treatment has gotten this far in trials, why the pandemic accelerated mRNA research faster than anyone expected, and why the commercial realities of personalized medicine, similar to the challenges facing CRISPR Therapeutics (NASDAQ:CRSP) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) with their multi million dollar sickle cell treatment, could complicate scalability even if the science works.
We make the case for why investing in a company trying to cure previously unsolvable diseases is worth serious consideration for stock investors, even beyond the pure economics, and why crossing a scientific milestone like this can open the floodgates for the rest of the biotech industry.
Then we shift to Uber (NYSE:UBER) and the case for why the robotaxi race may not be as simple as Waymo good, Uber bad. Rather than spending billions building its own autonomous vehicle fleet, Uber is positioning itself as the aggregator that Waymo, Zoox, Baidu and a growing list of AV players plug into. We break down CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's argument that the highest utilization operator will have the lowest cost of capital, and count the wave of robotaxi partnerships announced over just the last four months.
We close out on why this is not a simple binary bet, how Uber's ride hailing and delivery business has quietly become far more profitable in recent years, and why autonomous driving commoditization could actually favor Uber's asset light model as the technology scales globally.
Stocks mentioned:
- Moderna Inc (NASDAQ:MRNA)
- CRISPR Therapeutics AG (NASDAQ:CRSP)
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX)
- Uber Technologies Inc (NYSE:UBER)
- Alphabet Inc / Waymo (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
- Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)
- Amazon.com Inc / Zoox (NASDAQ:AMZN)
- Lyft Inc (NASDAQ:LYFT)
#StockClub #MyWallst #ModernaStock #UberStock #CancerVaccine #RobotaxiStocks #StocksToBuy
Motley Fool Co-Founder David Gardner's Top 10 Stock Picks, One Is Up 138,000% | Stock Club 325
Ahead of Investicon, we run through Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner's ten greatest stock recommendations of all time, a league table that includes Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), Booking …
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Ahead of Investicon, we run through Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner's ten greatest stock recommendations of all time, a league table that includes Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), Netflix (NASDAQ:NFLX), Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA), his best call by the widest margin. We dig into why he picked each of these growth stocks, what the market looked like at the time, and how a philosophy built for the long term turned early conviction into some of the best investment returns in stock picking history.From backing Nvidia in 2004 on a thesis about graphics demand long before anyone was talking about artificial intelligence, to spotting Booking.com's turnaround story when it was still known as Priceline, we break down the recipe behind these picks and what today's investors can actually learn and apply to finding the best stocks to buy now. We also cover why staying invested through years of drawdowns, rather than selling, was just as important to these results as the original stock picks themselves.Investicon is happening Thursday August 27th in Dublin, featuring David Gardner live alongside Bill Mann, Pieter Slegers of Compounding Quality and Eric Bleeker. Email [email protected] for a shot at one of this week's discount codes, or head to investicon.ie for tickets and details.Stocks mentioned:Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA)Netflix Inc (NASDAQ:NFLX)Booking Holdings (NASDAQ:BKNG)Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN)Nvidia Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA)Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT)#StockClub #MyWallst #StocksToBuy #GrowthStocks #InvestingPodcast #NvidiaStock #InvesticonAt MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.
Chapters Group: Europe's Mini Constellation Software With Compounding Quality's Pieter Slegers
Stock Club Episode 324 This week on Stock Club, we're joined by Pieter Slegers of Compounding Quality, one of the biggest names to come out of the Substack investing world. Pieter breaks down why Chapters Group …
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Stock Club Episode 324
This week on Stock Club, we're joined by Pieter Slegers of Compounding Quality, one of the biggest names to come out of the Substack investing world.
Pieter breaks down why Chapters Group AG (Frankfurt:CHG) has become one of his highest conviction Tiny Titans picks, including the story of driving seven hours to meet the CEO in person and what he learned from comparing the company to Constellation Software (TSX:CSU).
We also dig into Pieter's quality investing framework, his biggest lessons from mistakes of omission like Lotus Bakeries (Euronext:LOTB), and the daily routine that keeps him disciplined as an investor.
Pieter will be joining us on stage at Investicon on Thursday, August 27th at the Market Bar in Dublin, alongside Bill Mann, Eric Bleeker, Simon Zebo, David Gardner, and Robert Johnson. For ticket inquiries, email Brian@MyWallSt. Learn more and get your tickets at https://www.investicon.ie/
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Ouster & Schaeffler: Two More Investicon Stock Picks, One Year Later | Stock Club 323
Stock Club 323We're revisiting two more stocks pitched at last year's Investicon to see how they've performed, and one of them has been on an incredible run. Ouster (NASDAQ:OUST), the San Francisco lidar sensor …
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Stock Club 323We're revisiting two more stocks pitched at last year's Investicon to see how they've performed, and one of them has been on an incredible run. Ouster (NASDAQ:OUST), the San Francisco lidar sensor maker, is up roughly 90% since it was first flagged, with gross margins climbing from around 10% to 43% and a 13th straight quarter of growth. We break down the Department of Defense certification, the expanded manufacturing partnership, and why Q2 2026 earnings on August 6th could be the next big catalyst for this AI and robotics stock.We also check in on Schaeffler (ETR:SHA0), a 100 plus year old German industrial giant paying a 4.2% dividend yield, and why old world manufacturing businesses like this are becoming unexpectedly future relevant as the world builds out robotics and automation. Along the way we talk lidar technology, dividend stocks, and how to think about investing in AI adjacent industrial names.Finally, we've got a big announcement for our Investicon event on August 27th, just three weeks away, featuring Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner, Bill Mann, Eric Bleeker, Peter Slager of Compounding Quality, and more. Email [email protected] if you want a shot at one of this week's early bird discount tickets, or head to investicon.ie for more details.Stocks mentioned:Ouster Inc (NASDAQ:OUST)Schaeffler AG (ETR:SHA0) /U.S. OTC (Ordinary/Common): SCAFFBenchmark Electronics (NYSE:BHE)Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)Luminar Technologies (NASDAQ:LAZR)Hugo Boss (ETR:BOSS)Porsche AG (ETR:P911)Philip Morris International (NYSE:PM)Diageo (LSE:DGE)#StockClub #MyWallst #LidarStocks #DividendStocks #StocksToBuy #InvestingPodcast #AIStocksAt MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.
Two Overlooked AI Stocks Worth Knowing About
Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) is up 30% in the last year and powers an estimated 20% of the most valuable sites on the internet, but is it actually worth 300 times cash flow? This week we do a deep dive on one of the …
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Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) is up 30% in the last year and powers an estimated 20% of the most valuable sites on the internet, but is it actually worth 300 times cash flow?
This week we do a deep dive on one of the most complex and consistently expensive stocks in the market, breaking down how Cloudflare's edge network acts as the tollbooth of the modern internet, filtering cyber attacks, optimizing performance, and now positioning itself as the infrastructure layer for AI agents.
We also break down Vertiv Holdings (NYSE:VRT), the data center infrastructure specialist sitting on a backlog so large its employees are booked out for the next decade. The demand is undeniable for the next 2 to 3 years but is the AI infrastructure buildout heading for a fiber bubble-style correction, or is this the foundational chapter of a generational infrastructure player?
Stocks & Companies Mentioned:
- Cloudflare (NYSE:NET)
- Vertiv Holdings (NYSE:VRT)
- CrowdStrike (NASDAQ:CRWD)
- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
- Amazon/AWS (NASDAQ:AMZN)
- Alphabet/Google Cloud (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
- SpaceX (NASDAQ:SPCX)
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How PayPal Went from Wall Street Darling to Unwilling Takeover Target
At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build …
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At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.
Stock Club Episode 321
PayPal was once worth $360 billion. This week Stripe and private equity firm Advent International put in a joint bid of $53 billion to take it private, a 90% drop from its all time high. We break down how PayPal built the original railroad of the internet, why it sat still while the world moved around it, and what Stripe's move tells us about where the payments industry is heading next.
Plus: a Chinese AI model is now claiming to outperform the American giants and what the US government is likely to do about it.
SpaceX's lockup period and what investors should do right now.
Prophet rebalanced last Friday selling four stocks including Howmet Aerospace (NYSE:HWM) for a 130% gain, and adding four new ones including Moog Inc (NYSE:MOG.A).
Investicon is coming to Dublin on August 27th, the greatest concentration of legendary investors anywhere in the world. Email [email protected] for tickets and discount codes.
Stocks & Companies Mentioned
PayPal (NASDAQ:PYPL)
Stripe: Private
Advent International : Private equity
Block (NYSE:SQ)
SpaceX (Nasdaq: SPCX)
Howmet Aerospace (NYSE:HWM)
Moog Inc (NYSE:MOG.A)
Emcor Group (NYSE:EME)
Powell Industries (NASDAQ:POWL)
Invedere: Private
Global Payments (NYSE:GPN)
Worldpay: Private
Nuvei (NASDAQ:NVEI)
Payoneer (NASDAQ:PAYO)
Mastercard (NYSE:MA)
Revolut: Private
Affirm (NASDAQ:AFRM)
Palantir (NASDAQ:PLTR)
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)
LinkedIn — private (Microsoft owned)
AI Models Referenced:
OpenAI
Anthropic
Kimi (Moonshot AI)
Links Mentioned:
Investicon Dublin (Aug 27): email [email protected] or visit investorcon.ie
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One Industry for Reliable Returns. One for a Moonshot. Here Are Our Picks. | Stock Club 320
At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build …
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Ten of the biggest medical device companies in the world are down between 5% and 54% year to date and it has almost nothing to do with their underlying businesses. Abbott Labs (NYSE:ABT), Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG), Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX), Stryker (NYSE:SYK), Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) and more are all suffering from the same thing: money rotating out of quality businesses and into the AI infrastructure trade.
We break down why this is happening, which companies look most interesting at current valuations, and whether this is a genuine long term buying opportunity or a value trap. Plus: small modular reactors and the nuclear energy stocks being backed by Google, Amazon and Microsoft to power the AI data center buildout including the one pick and shovels play that could underpin the entire industry.
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Stocks & Companies Mentioned
Medical Devices:
- Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT)
- Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ:ISRG)
- Stryker (NYSE:SYK)
- Medtronic (NYSE:MDT)
- Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX)
- Edwards Lifesciences (NYSE:EW)
- Becton Dickinson (NYSE:BDX)
- Alcon (NYSE:ALC)
- ResMed (NYSE:RMD)
- Dexcom (NASDAQ:DXCM)
Nuclear / SMR:
- NuScale Power (NYSE:SMR)
- Nano Nuclear Energy (NASDAQ:NNE)
- Centrus Energy (NYSE:LEU)
- Constellation Energy (NASDAQ:CEG)
- Vistra (NYSE:VST)
Referenced:
- SK Hynix (KRX:000660)
- Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)
- Google/Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)
- Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)
- Meta (NASDAQ:META)
The Stocks Quietly Beating Nvidia in 2026 | Stock Club 319
Investicon is coming to Dublin on August 27th, info and tickets at https://www.investicon.ie/ or email [email protected] for tickets and early bird codes.Subscribe to Prophet: UseProphet.com or email …
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Investicon is coming to Dublin on August 27th, info and tickets at https://www.investicon.ie/ or email [email protected] for tickets and early bird codes.Subscribe to Prophet: UseProphet.com or email [email protected] MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.Stock Club Episode 319The Magnificent Seven dominated markets for years but in the first half of 2026, the rest of the S&P 500 is up over 14% while the Mag 7 is up just 2%. So what's actually winning? Memory and storage. SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK) is up 717%, Micron (NASDAQ:MU) 274%, Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) 245% and every single one of them is completely sold out. Their clients aren't negotiating price, they're negotiating how much they're even allowed to buy.We break down the top 10 best and 10 worst performing S&P 500 stocks of 2026 so far, why AI infrastructure is the only game in town, and what the collapse of consulting giants and software stocks tells us about where the market is headed next.Stocks & Companies MentionedTop Performers:SanDisk (NASDAQ:SNDK)Micron Technology (NASDAQ:MU)Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC)Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX)Dell Technologies (NYSE:DELL)Marvell Technology (NASDAQ:MRVL)Applied Materials (NASDAQ:AMAT)Corning (NYSE:GLW)Flex (NASDAQ:FLEX)Worst Performers / Discussed:Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT)Meta (NASDAQ:META)Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN)Alphabet/Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL)Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)Intuit/TurboTax (NASDAQ:INTU)CoStar Group (NASDAQ:CSGP)Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX)ETFs Mentioned:Semiconductor ETF (NASDAQ:SMH)Software ETF (NASDAQ:IGV)#stockclub #mywallst #sandisk #micron #westerndigital #nvidia #magnificentseven #SP500 #semiconductors #AIstocks #techinvesting #investing #stockmarket #growthinvesting #Intel #memorystock #investicon #2026stocks
Bending Spoons: The Company Behind Vimeo, Evernote and AOL Is About to Go Public | Stock Club 318
At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build …
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At MyWallSt, we believe great investing is about patience, discipline, and owning outstanding businesses. Our team researches global stocks, publishes transparent performance, and helps investors build long-term wealth without hype or guesswork. Horizon is our long-term buy-and-hold service, while Prophet is a five-minutes-a-month system that has trounced the average market returns over 17 years.An Italian tech company is about to go public and you've almost certainly used one of its products. Bending Spoons (IPO filing: July 2026) has quietly built a portfolio of over a billion registered users by acquiring beaten-down internet brands like Vimeo, Evernote, Eventbrite, AOL, WeTransfer, and StreamYard, then slashing costs by up to 90% and rebuilding them with AI. This week we break down their ruthless but fascinating business model, how they're applying AI to run a 500-person company managing billions of users, and whether this upcoming IPO is worth watching.We also check in on Following Prophet, MyWallSt's algorithmic stock portfolio up 45.5% in the last 12 months, 183.6% over five years, and 2,394% since inception in December 2009.Plus: Investicon is coming to Dublin on August 27th, featuring Motley Fool co-founder David Gardner as VIP guest. Tickets and early bird codes available: email [email protected] & Companies Mentioned:Bending Spoons — IPO pendingVimeo (NASDAQ:VMEO)Eventbrite (NYSE:EB) acquired by Bending SpoonsPowell Industries (NASDAQ:POWL)MedPace Holdings (NASDAQ:MEDP)WESCO International (NYSE:WCC)Constellation Software (TSX:CSU)Ferrari (NYSE:RACE)Brunello Cucinelli (BIT:BC)AOL — private (owned by Bending Spoons)Evernote — private (owned by Bending Spoons)WeTransfer — private (owned by Bending Spoons)StreamYard — private (owned by Bending Spoons)Links Mentioned:Investicon: Dublin (Aug 27): Email [email protected] for tickets Subscribe to Prophet: Email [email protected]
#317: Our Favorite Japanese Stocks
This week, Mike and Emmet head to Japan in search of overlooked growth stocks.Japan is home to some of the world's oldest businesses, with more than 140 companies claiming histories of over 500 years. Many of …
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This week, Mike and Emmet head to Japan in search of overlooked growth stocks.
Japan is home to some of the world's oldest businesses, with more than 140 companies claiming histories of over 500 years. Many of them have survived by following two simple rules: hold plenty of cash and avoid debt. But after decades of economic stagnation, a new wave of corporate reforms is pushing Japanese businesses to become more growth-oriented and shareholder-friendly.
To uncover some of the market's most promising opportunities, Emmet screens the entire Japanese stock market for companies with market caps below $20 billion, strong returns on equity, high returns on invested capital, and rapidly accelerating revenue growth.
One company that stands out is Sanrio (8136.T), the owner of some of Japan's most recognizable intellectual property. Despite growing revenue at an impressive pace in recent years, its valuation has actually become cheaper relative to its historical averages—a combination investors rarely get to see.
Mike then pitches his favorite company of the bunch: Smaregi (4431.T), a fast-growing software business often described as Japan's answer to Square. While countries like China and South Korea have embraced digital payments, Japan remains surprisingly dependent on cash. As the country pushes toward a cashless future, Smaregi's point-of-sale and merchant software platform could be perfectly positioned to benefit.
The pair also explore VRAIN Solution (135A.T), an AI-powered manufacturing software company helping factories automate quality control and safety inspections, ANYCOLOR (5032.T), one of the most unusual media businesses you'll ever encounter, and BuySell Technologies (7685.T), a fast-growing platform capitalizing on Japan's booming second-hand luxury and collectibles market.
Finally, Emmet shares his favorite idea from the entire list: OneCareer (4377.T), a founder-led recruitment and career platform that combines elements of LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and SaaS software. With revenue growing more than 40% annually and returns on equity continuing to climb, it could be one of the most compelling small-cap growth stories in Japan today.
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00:00 Intro
01:02 The Japanese Stock Market
10:37 Sanrio Breakdown
15:08 Smaregi’s Cashless Wave
26:32 Vrain AI Factories
30:22 ANYCOLOR VTuber Empire
34:37 BuySell Technologies
37:14 OneCareer HR Data SaaS#316: How to Find 100-Bagger Stocks (w/ Neeraj Khemlani and Matthew Ankrom)
This week, Mike sits down with Neeraj Khemlani and Matthew Ankrom, the minds behind The Coffee Can Investor, to discuss one of our favorite investing topics: finding and holding stocks capable of returning …
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This week, Mike sits down with Neeraj Khemlani and Matthew Ankrom, the minds behind The Coffee Can Investor, to discuss one of our favorite investing topics: finding and holding stocks capable of returning 100x.
We open with Neeraj and Matthew walking us through the story behind the "coffee can" strategy. Inspired by an old investing experiment, Matt set out to build the ultimate long-term portfolio for his three daughters, a collection of businesses he hopes could one day be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But what exactly makes a 100-bagger?
Drawing on years of research, Matt explains the common traits shared by some of the greatest stock market winners of the last half-century. His research found that many were founder-led, generated recurring revenue, operated in seemingly boring industries, and consistently reinvested capital at high rates for decades.
The vast majority weren't flashy consumer brands or cutting-edge tech companies. Instead, many were business-to-business operators providing mission-critical products and services, think nuts and bolts, seals and gaskets, and industrial supplies.
Of course, finding a 100-bagger is only half the battle. Holding one is much harder.
The average 100-bagger endured drawdowns of roughly 70% on its journey, giving retail investors an edge. Unlike professional fund managers, individual investors aren't forced to think in quarters or even years, they can think in decades.
We also discuss the mathematics of compounding, why exponential growth is so difficult for humans to grasp, and how even Warren Buffett accumulated the vast majority of his wealth later in life.
Finally, Matt shares one of his favorite potential future 100-baggers: TechnologyOne (ASX: TNE), an Australian software business quietly embedding itself into the daily operations of universities and local governments while investing heavily in AI-powered products.
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00:00 Intro
01:17 Coffee can origin story
05:28 Identifying hundred baggers
13:35 Holding through drawdowns
24:49 Retail investors hidden benefit
30:56 Investicon
33:07 Finding 100-baggers in the current market
35:50 Matt’s favorite 100-bagger
45:15 Why write The Coffee Can Investor
48:34 Building a financial legacy
#315: How to Invest Through Booms, Busts & Bubbles (w/ Ben Carlson)
This week, Mike sits down with investor and author Ben Carlson to discuss the habits, mindsets, and mistakes that define successful investing.We start with the two variables Ben believes matter more than …
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This week, Mike sits down with investor and author Ben Carlson to discuss the habits, mindsets, and mistakes that define successful investing.
We start with the two variables Ben believes matter more than anything else: your time horizon and your risk profile. While most investors focus on picking the right stocks, Ben argues that understanding your willingness, need, and ability to take risk is far more important and often the difference between staying the course and making costly mistakes.
From there, we talk market history. Ben explains why studying past booms and busts isn't about predicting the future but understanding the range of outcomes markets are capable of producing. History teaches us how quickly sentiment can swing from euphoria to panic and why investors should always expect the unexpected.
We also tackle one of investing's most persistent temptations: market timing. Ben argues that trying to jump in and out of markets introduces more problems than it solves, creating a psychological battle that's incredibly difficult to win consistently. To combat the temptation, Ben proposes his concept of a "fun account"—setting aside a small portion of your portfolio for speculation, trading, crypto, or whatever scratches your investing itch. Done correctly, it can help investors stay disciplined with the other 90% of their wealth while learning just how difficult it is to outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy.
With AI stocks soaring and trillion-dollar IPOs dominating headlines, we naturally have to talk today's market environment. Ben reflects on how technological revolutions have always created uncertainty, why comparing today's AI boom to previous market manias is both useful and dangerous, and why keeping an open mind remains essential for investors. He also explores why markets seem to move faster than ever before.
Finally, Ben explains why optimism may be an investor's most important asset. While crashes, recessions, and bear markets are inevitable, long-term investing ultimately requires a belief that businesses, economies, and human innovation will continue moving forward.
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00:00 Intro02:47 Time Horizon And Risk06:20 Why Market Timing Fails11:46 The Fun Account Idea20:22 Trillion Dollar IPOs
21:39 Promo
23:49 Ben on Space X’s IPO28:41 Why Markets Move Faster35:13 Importance of Optimism44:01 Preparing For Big Drawdowns
#314: Can SpaceX Really Be Worth $2 Trillion?
Ahead of its highly anticipated IPO, SpaceX is reportedly targeting a valuation between $1.75 trillion and $2 trillion, numbers that would make it one of the largest public companies in the world from day one …
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Ahead of its highly anticipated IPO, SpaceX is reportedly targeting a valuation between $1.75 trillion and $2 trillion, numbers that would make it one of the largest public companies in the world from day one. This week, Mike and Emmet ask: does the business justify the hype?
In 2025, revenue reached $18.7 billion, up 33% year over year. But the company also posted a net loss of roughly $5 billion, including a staggering $4.3 billion loss in the first quarter of 2026 alone.
While SpaceX's established businesses, Starlink and Launch Services, continue to expand, the division attracting the most scrutiny is xAI.
Despite contributing just 17% of revenue, xAI generated billions in losses as Elon Musk pours money into competing with the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. The company has burned through billions on AI infrastructure, but investors are betting today's losses could become tomorrow's dominance.
There are also concerns around governance, float, and a potential merger. Musk controls roughly 85% of the company's voting power, giving him near-total control over board appointments, executive pay, and strategic decisions. Meanwhile, only a small percentage of shares will initially be available to trade, creating the potential for significant volatility once the stock hits public markets. Rumors are also swirling that SpaceX and Tesla could eventually combine forces, creating one of the most ambitious corporate structures in history.Ultimately, investors are being asked to pay a premium today for technologies that may not fully arrive for years—or even decades.
Only time will tell whether SpaceX becomes the company that powers interplanetary travel, AI infrastructure, and space-based energy systems. If it does, today's valuation may end up looking cheap. If not, this could go down as one of the most ambitious IPOs ever brought to market.
We wrap up with another episode of Follow Prophet.
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00:00 Intro03:36 SpaceX IPO Preview07:24 Valuation14:20 Governance And Control Risks21:05 Tesla SpaceX Merger Talk30:00 IPO Timing Buy Or Wait40:23 Follow Prophet
#313: Wall Street's Craziest Stories
This week, Mike and Emmet share some of the craziest stories in stock market history.Starting with a chimpanzee named Raven, who became a star during the dot-com bubble. After throwing darts at a board of …
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This week, Mike and Emmet share some of the craziest stories in stock market history.
Starting with a chimpanzee named Raven, who became a star during the dot-com bubble. After throwing darts at a board of internet stocks, her assembled portfolio returned 213% in 1999, making her the 22nd most successful money manager in the United States that year.
Then there’s the story of Jonathan Lebed — essentially a 14-year-old version of Jordan Belfort. During the early internet era, Lebed made nearly $1 million running pump-and-dump schemes from his bedroom, buying penny stocks before hyping them up in online chat rooms using fake accounts. The strategy was wildly illegal… but also wildly effective.
We also revisit one of the strangest moments of the post-COVID market frenzy: Hertz (HTZ). After filing for bankruptcy, the stock somehow surged nearly 9x as retail investors piled in. Even more bizarre? The company nearly raised fresh capital by selling shares in the bankrupt business — and investors who bought during the chaos actually ended up making money.
From there, we move to one of the most famous short squeezes ever: Volkswagen (VOW3). What began as Porsche quietly building a stake in the automaker spiraled into absolute panic on Wall Street, as hedge funds crowded into what they believed was a “risk-free” arbitrage trade. Instead, Volkswagen briefly became the most valuable company in the world as the stock exploded over three days.
And finally, we tell the story of the “ramen-eating hermit” who made $20 million in 10 minutes.After a catastrophic trading error at Mizuho Securities triggered chaos on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, one obscure retail trader spotted the mistake faster than institutional investors, bought aggressively, and walked away with a fortune. Meanwhile, the brokerage firm behind the error lost an estimated $347 million.
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00:00 Intro
02:22 Chimp Beats Wall Street
08:19 Teen Jordan Belfort
14:25 Hertz Bankrupt Stock Surge
21:58 Investicon announcement
25:08 Volkswagan Short Squeeze
37:23 Ramen Trader Windfall
43:38 Favorite Story and Wrap
#312: Cerebras: 2026's biggest IPO?
This week, we dive into one of the hottest new companies in AI and the market: Cerebras (CBRS).The company only just IPO’d, but it’s already valued at close to $100 billion. Even more astonishing? Cerebras was …
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This week, we dive into one of the hottest new companies in AI and the market: Cerebras (CBRS).
The company only just IPO’d, but it’s already valued at close to $100 billion. Even more astonishing? Cerebras was founded just 11 years ago by five engineers.
Its core thesis is radical: the architecture underpinning AI computing is fundamentally flawed.Cerebras argues that GPUs—the chips powering today’s AI boom—were never actually designed for deep learning. They just happened to be dramatically better than CPUs. So instead of improving on existing designs, Cerebras built something entirely different from the ground up: the Wafer Scale Engine (WSE).
The result is a system that eliminates many of the bottlenecks caused by connecting multiple chips together while delivering memory bandwidth reportedly 7,000 times greater than traditional GPU setups.
But for all the excitement, there are real concerns too.
The company initially filed for an IPO in 2024, but the process was delayed after a national security review. It also came under heavy scrutiny after investors discovered it relied heavily on a single UAE-linked customer, G42. Even today, two UAE organizations account for roughly 86% of Cerebras’ revenue—an enormous concentration risk for any business.
Still, the growth has been hard to ignore.
Cerebras generated roughly $510 million in revenue in 2025, up 76% year-over-year, while swinging from a massive net loss to profitability. The business has also aggressively expanded into cloud AI infrastructure, signing major deals with OpenAI, Amazon Web Services, and customers including Meta (META), Mistral AI, Perplexity AI, and Mayo Clinic. Its OpenAI compute agreement alone is reportedly worth more than $20 billion through 2028.
So the big question is simple: is Cerebras worth $100 billion?
We then cover Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman’s declining reputation, Anthropic’s revenue acceleration, and what it all means for the stock market, with many AI companies eyeing IPOs. 2026 could end up being the biggest year on record for public markets.
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00:00 Intro03:36 Meet Cerebras12:39 Benchmarks Speed Advantage17:32 Financials20:45 Bull Case22:11 Bear Case24:54 Elon Musk and OpenAI32:36 AI IPO wave
#311: Are We in an AI Bubble?
The market is on an absolute tear right now, and it’s raising some serious questions. Lucky for you, Mike and Emmet want to upack them all.Despite the crazy macroeconomic conditions, the market keeps …
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The market is on an absolute tear right now, and it’s raising some serious questions. Lucky for you, Mike and Emmet want to upack them all.
Despite the crazy macroeconomic conditions, the market keeps performing. The Nasdaq Composite is up roughly 38% in the last year. And when you zoom in on individual stocks, things get even crazier.
SanDisk (SNDK) is up 63% in a month, 450% in six months, and an eye-watering 3,800% over the last 12 months. Micron (MU) has jumped 86% in a month and nearly 8x in a year, while Western Digital (WDC) is up around 1,000% over the same period. Even lesser-known names like AXT (AXTI) are suddenly flying, up roughly 700% year-to-date.
In fact, the top 10 stocks over the past 12 months have outperformed the top performers in the 12 month run-up to the dot-com bubble – a stat that’s hard to ignore.
So… are we in an AI bubble?
Skeptics like Michael Burry argue this rally looks even more extreme than 1999. And to be fair, many of the classic bubble ingredients are there: stretched valuations, momentum chasing, and heavy concentration in a single theme.
But there’s a strong counterargument too.
We’ve just come through a blockbuster earnings season, with the median earnings surprise hitting 6% – the best since 2022. AI demand isn’t just hype; companies are struggling to keep up. Hyperscalers like Amazon (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT), and Alphabet (GOOGL) are pouring hundreds of billions into infrastructure, signaling that this could be a real productivity revolution.Still, that level of spending raises some eyebrows.
And while AI stocks dominate headlines, there’s another side to this market.
Plenty of high-quality businesses are being left behind, with money rotating aggressively into AI. Stocks like McDonald's (MCD), Home Depot (HD), Mercado Libre (MELI), Lululemon (LULU), and Accenture (ACN) are sitting near 52-week lows – along with a host of medical leaders like Abbott Laboratories (ABT), Medtronic (MDT), and Intuitive Surgical (ISRG). These are durable, proven businesses – but right now, if you’re not AI, you’re being ignored. So five years from now, would you rather own today’s high-flying AI names or these overlooked compounders trading at a discount?
And finally, we dive into one of the wildest stories in the market right now: GameStop (GME) reportedly exploring a deal to acquire eBay (EBAY). GameStop is worth about $12 billion and to pull off the deal it could end up needing as much as $65 billion. Meaning, it would likely need to issue a massive amount of new shares and take on tens of billions in debt, raising serious questions about dilution and feasibility.
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00:00 Intro02:22 Nasdaq Surge Bubble Talk05:18 Semiconductor Mania Stats16:21 C3 AI as Bubble Counterpoint21:43 Undervalued Stocks and Market Rotation24:38 GameStop Bids for eBay35:47 Following Prophet
#310: Modern Value Investing w/ Jose Mayora
The typical definition of Value Investing: Buying an asset for less than it’s truly worth. But according to this week’s guest Jose Najarro, the concept is widely misunderstood.Too often, value investing is …
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The typical definition of Value Investing: Buying an asset for less than it’s truly worth. But according to this week’s guest Jose Najarro, the concept is widely misunderstood.
Too often, value investing is associated with older, slower companies, think utilities, and traditional metrics like low price-to-earnings or price-to-book ratios. But those alone don’t define value. Every valuation comes with a set of implicit assumptions, and the real skill lies in unpacking them and deciding whether they’re realistic.
In fact, some of Jose’s best-performing investments would never have been labeled “value plays” by conventional standards. Instead, he describes his philosophy as a modern take on value investing. His book, Wall Street’s Blind Spots, explores this idea in depth.
Most importantly: you can’t judge a business purely by its cash flows – you have to look at what it does with them. Companies that reinvest cash poorly, such as buying back stock at inflated prices, can destroy value. On the other hand, businesses that consistently generate high returns on invested capital deserve a premium.
Jose points to companies that can achieve around 20% returns on invested capital (ROIC) as the gold standard. Apple is a classic example: the success of the iPod funded the development of the iPhone, the iPhone funded the launch of wearables, and enormous long-term returns were achieved. Amazon is another, continually reinvesting into new ventures and compounding value over time.
This framework raises important questions in today’s AI race. For instance, Google is expected to spend around $200 billion in capital expenditures this year. To justify that, it would need to generate roughly $220 billion in profit to achieve a 20% return – an outcome Jose views as far from certain. He draws parallels between today’s AI infrastructure buildout and telecom investments during the dot-com bubble: companies like AT&T and Verizon survived, but their stocks stagnated as they were trapped in endless cycles of reinvestment to maintain customers. The big payoff never came while companies that used that infrastructure flourished.
His final takeway: investing, especially value investing, is a game of patience. Avoid the temptation of FOMO and focus on long-term fundamentals.
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00:00 Intro04:25 Defining Value Investing08:11 Modern Value Investing19:40 AI Bubble Risk23:06 Value Investing Even as Growth Stocks Rally28:59 The Rise of the Retail Investor35:16 Best Valuation Metric42:00 Common Valuation Mistakes
#309: 2 Legacy Stocks for Long-term Investing
With all the talk of IPOs and upstarts, it’s a great time to remember that legacy players can still pack a punch. This week, we look at two companies that have been on public markets for decades and have been …
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With all the talk of IPOs and upstarts, it’s a great time to remember that legacy players can still pack a punch. This week, we look at two companies that have been on public markets for decades and have been all over the headlines lately: Intel(NASDAQ: INTC) and Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B).
Intel has been on the Stock Club radar for about nine months, when it was first pitched by Clem Chambers. Since then, it’s up more than 270%, driven by many of the factors he predicted like outsized chip demand, a push to deconsolidate manufacturing capacity, and increased government investment. It’s a pretty monumental occasion, considering this is the first time Intel has reached an all-time high since the dot-com bubble.
In its most recent quarter, Intel reported revenue of $13.6 billion, well above estimates of $12.4 billion, while also delivering a significant expansion in gross margins and raising its revenue forecast. Definitely a stock worth a look if you can get past the valuation.
Berkshire is in the news for a completely different reason: its new CEO, Greg Abel. While Abel assumed the role in January, this will be his first annual meeting – arguably Berkshire’s most beloved tradition.
Compared to Warren Buffett, Abel is expected to take a more hands-on approach, often touring facilities across the company’s many subsidiaries and favoring direct involvement in operations.
So far in his tenure, he’s accomplished four notable things:
- First, on his first day as CEO, he closed Berkshire’s $9.7 billion acquisition of OxyChem, Occidental’s chemical subsidiary.
- Second, on March 4th, Berkshire resumed share buybacks for the first time since May 2024, repurchasing about $226 million of stock. Clearly, Abel sees Berkshire itself as a buy and wouldn’t deploy that kind of capital otherwise.
- Third, he personally invested his entire $15.3 million after-tax salary into Berkshire Class B shares.
- Finally, he invested $1.8 billion into Tokio Marine, taking Berkshire’s total Japanese equity exposure above $46 billion.
We’ll certainly be tuning in to the annual meeting on May 2nd.
We wrap by telling you which one we’d invest $10K in.
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00:00 Intro01:53 Two Legacy Picks03:29 Intel Turnaround Setup05:05 CHIPS Act Boost08:14 Q1 Earnings Surge15:00 Buy Sell Or Regret17:45 Berkshire AGM Story20:05 Succession To Greg Abel and32:48 Operator Versus Investor40:34 Warren Buffet’s Japan Trade Playbook42:03 10k Pick
#308: The Best and Worst Business Pivots
In light of Allbirds’ (NASDAQ: BIRD) head-scratching transition to an AI compute infrastructure company, Mike and Emmet break down some of the market’s best and worst business pivots.In simple terms, a pivot is …
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In light of Allbirds’ (NASDAQ: BIRD) head-scratching transition to an AI compute infrastructure company, Mike and Emmet break down some of the market’s best and worst business pivots.
In simple terms, a pivot is when a business decides to stop doing what it’s known for and pursue something else. This can be proactive, like Slack giving up its gaming business to develop its internal communication tool, or reactive, like Netflix opting to move into streaming in response to digital competition.
Emmet kicks things off with Nokia (NYSE: NOK). It started as a paper mill in Finland back in 1865. In the early ’90s, it exited its legacy businesses to focus entirely on mobile phones and network equipment, eventually ending up in a cell phone duopoly with Ericsson. However, Nokia is also a key example of how quickly market leadership can be lost when a company fails to anticipate major shifts – in this case, the move to smartphones. Luckily, it pivoted again, going all in on infrastructure and investing heavily in 5G, and it currently has a market cap of more than $50 billion.
Saab started out building fighter jets for the Swedish military in the 1930s before expanding into cars after the war. In 1989, GM came in, bought half of the car company, and split it away from the aerospace division. By 2008, it was struggling and eventually went under. However, Saab AB (SAAB-B.ST) is thriving, with record backlog and profitability.
Another post-war success story, Hyundai started as a civil engineering company helping Korea rebuild, eventually pivoting to car manufacturing in the 1960s. During the Asian financial crisis, Hyundai made a deliberate decision to move upmarket, investing heavily in design, engineering, and quality. Over time, it transformed from producing low-quality vehicles into a reliable, stylish, and increasingly desirable automaker.
Finally, one of the market’s most infamous pivot stories: MicroStrategy (NASDAQ: MSTR). It was initially focused on information systems in the ’90s, rising and collapsing during the dot-com bubble. While its stock never fully recovered, its core business continued generating cash over the next 20 years. In 2020, CEO Michael Saylor decided to go all in on Bitcoin, and the stock is up 15x since. Today, the company holds $61.5 billion in Bitcoin on its balance sheet – about 4% of the current supply – at an average price of $75,527. Unfortunately, if Bitcoin falls below this price, it could trigger a massive sell-off of both MSTR and Bitcoin – not ideal.
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00:00 Intro02:40 Allbirds Goes AI07:34 What Is a Pivot12:05 Nokia Reinvents Itself18:52 Saab Cars to Defense28:09 Hyundai From Construction to Cars34:03 MicroStrategy Bitcoin Bet43:22 Follow Prophet Picks
#307: Is SpaceX’s IPO a Buy?
This week, we’re discussing one of the most significant IPOs of all time: SpaceX.While space travel began as a government-led effort, over the past few decades it has increasingly become the domain of the …
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This week, we’re discussing one of the most significant IPOs of all time: SpaceX.
While space travel began as a government-led effort, over the past few decades it has increasingly become the domain of the private sector. For those who need a refresher on the business of space—and SpaceX specifically—Emmet has you covered with a detailed preamble.
SpaceX consists of three core businesses: rocket launches and space haulage, Starlink internet, and government and defense communications infrastructure known as Starshield. The long-term goal across all three is to drive down the cost of space launches and become the go-to provider for space infrastructure companies. However, SpaceX has also recently acquired xAI, bringing Twitter, Grok, and their associated costs into the picture.
For Mike, this is key to understanding why the company may pursue an IPO.
You might think that after years of sparring with investors, Musk would want to avoid public markets—especially given how well the business is performing privately. But with xAI now in the mix, SpaceX needs significant capital to build out data centers and attract top engineering talent. This creates tension for investors who are primarily interested in the company’s core space business.
As of this recording, SpaceX is targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation, implying it would go public at 56x revenue and 109x EBITDA. That’s extremely lofty—even with the Musk premium. Interestingly, the NASDAQ has also made aggressive rule changes to fast-track SpaceX’s inclusion in the NASDAQ-100, which would prompt a number of passive funds (such as QQQ) to purchase shares upon debut. This could further inflate the stock’s valuation, and Mike worries it may leave retail investors holding the bag while providing a liquidity event for private investors. Emmet agrees, comparing SpaceX’s unconventional path to market to the SPAC boom of 2020.
Overall, both believe that while SpaceX is a once-in-a-generation company, it may not be a once-in-a-generation investment.
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00:00 Intro04:08 SpaceX IPO Hype Begins07:50 Space Race to Moon Landing22:51 IPO Filing Details and Why Now27:41 NASDAQ Rule Changes34:22 SpaceX Three Businesses45:08 Launch Costs Collapse47:56 Would You Buy on IPO?
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